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Paper, 'An instance of the electrical virtue in the cure of a baby' from Patrick Brydone

Reference number: L&P/3/272

Date: 1757

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Subject: Physics/Medicine

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'A letter to the Rev. Tho. Birch, D. D. Secret. R. S. from John Pringle, M. D. F. R. S. inclosing two papers communicated to him by Robert Whytt, M. D. F. R. S'

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L&P/3/272
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1757
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4 pages
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Patrick Brydone

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Patrick Brydone, Paper, 'An instance of the electrical virtue in the cure of a baby' from Patrick Brydone, 1757, L&P/3/272, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_3_272/paper-an-instance-of-the-electrical-virtue-in-the-cure-of-a-baby-from-patrick-brydone, accessed on 13 December 2024

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